μέθη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μέθυ (méthu, “wine”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mé.tʰɛː/ → /ˈme.θi/ → /ˈme.θi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mé.tʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.θi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.θi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.θi/

Noun

μέθη • (méthē) f (genitive μέθης); third declension

1. strong drink; heavy drinking
2. drunkenness
3. (figuratively) intoxication

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μέθη; τῆς μέθης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μέθη hē méthē	τὼ μέθᾱ tṑ méthā	αἱ μέθαι hai méthai
Genitive	τῆς μέθης tês méthēs	τοῖν μέθαιν toîn méthain	τῶν μεθῶν tôn methôn
Dative	τῇ μέθῃ têi méthēi	τοῖν μέθαιν toîn méthain	ταῖς μέθαις taîs méthais
Accusative	τὴν μέθην tḕn méthēn	τὼ μέθᾱ tṑ méthā	τᾱ̀ς μέθᾱς tā̀s méthās
Vocative	μέθη méthē	μέθᾱ méthā	μέθαι méthai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “μέθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μέθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Franco Montanari et al. (2015) Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, editors, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 1295
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • drunkenness idem, page 255.
  • insobriety idem, page 445.
  • intemperance idem, page 448.
  • intoxication idem, page 454.
  • sottishness idem, page 796.
  • tipsiness idem, page 877.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέθη (méthē).

Noun

μέθη • (méthi) f (uncountable)

1. drunkenness

   Synonym: μεθύσι (methýsi)

Declension

Declension of μέθη

	singular
nominative	μέθη (méthi)
genitive	μέθης (méthis)
accusative	μέθη (méthi)
vocative	μέθη (méthi)

Related terms

• see: μεθώ (methó, “to get drunk”)